March, 2022 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) gets a leg up on politeness.
Misdirection Play, Truth-in-Labeling Dept. 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Brian Parsons clearly has confused left and right.
The chutzpah leaves one speechless.
All the History that Fits 0
A retired Auburn University history professor responds to Alabama’s effort to whitewash (you will pardon the expression) American history.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is in the bag.
Police say a Dallas basketball team came to practice for a tournament, and someone brought a gun in a bag onto the bus. It went off and struck the 18-year-old girl in the left ankle.
All the News that Fits 0
David dissects a keystone point. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Breaking Wind 0
What’s with Donald Trump’s weird hangup with windmills?
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Sublime vs. the Ridiculous 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells a tale of two convoys, one circumnavigating the Washington Beltway and one carry relief supplies from Berlin to Ukraine. An excerpt:
For those of us who do, Ukraine is a reminder that resisting tyranny is not a performance, not something you cosplay. That reminder is vital, given that American democracy is fast eroding – not because of medical mandates, mind, you, but because of attacks on the right to vote, protest and speak freely. Against that troubling confluence of threats, the truckers who descended on D.C. provide vivid illustration that even at this dangerous extremity, the American capacity for blithe idiocy remains intact.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept.
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At SFGate, Drew Magary argues forcefully that certain states (Texas, Florida, etc.) are trying to secede without actually seceding. He suggests that, in the long run, it won’t go well for them, but, in the short run, we can expect much gratuitous suffering for those who don’t fit their image of “real Americans.” A nugget:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses how Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed become the raison d’etre of the Republican Party.
I’m a Southern boy. I know bigots when I see them.
Speaking of Leaf Blowers . . . . 0
If this, I must say, had happened me, I would have remained inside my own doors, but I am not unsympathetic to his emotional state.
QOTD 0
Bruce Nozick, in the voice of Pete Valera:
A person can live with anything if they don’t think about it too much.
A Casualty 0
Over the years, I’ve posted a number of images from a site named “All Things Amazing” (always attributing the source), a site based in Russia (the URL was a *.ru URL). I appreciated the webmaster’s love for the outre and the impish.
Today, this came into my rss feed. Note that, by the time you read this, the link may not work, or, at least, may not work fully.
(Russian text snipped.)
________________________________________________________________________________________________yesterday I received this notice
“ATTENTION
On 10.03.2022, the site radikal.ru ceases to work.
From this date, videos and pictures will not be available.
To avoid losing your content, save it to your disk.”this will be the end of the legendary retro_dome and adski_kafeteri, because 90% of images in these communities were uploaded and stored on this photo-host.
if you don’t know who to thank for the holes instead of images in this community, write a collective letter of gratitude to Putin and his war.
but the holes in this community are incalculably easier to survive, than the holes instead of the windows of Ukrainian residential buildings, hospitals and schools.
Full article
https://adski-kafeteri.livejournal.com/3079318.html